Wrapping-tube.



D. APPEL.

WRAPPING TUBE.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 15, 1912.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

THE NORRIS PETERS 00.. PHOTO-LITHO" WASHINGTON Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

D. APPEL.

WRAPPING TUBE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.15, 1912.

L lfifi gfifi, Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

THE NORRIS PETERS CO, PHOTD-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. l). C.

DANIEL APTEEL, OF EAST CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WB/APPING IUIBE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 36*, Timid.

Application filed November 15 1912. Serial No. 731,632.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL APPEL, a, citizen of the United States, residing at East Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Uhio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wrapping- Tubes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a tube of flexible material which is adapted to serve especially as a wrapper or container for printed matter, such as magazines and other periodicals, catalogues, pamphlets, sheet music and the like and which are preferably rolled for convenience in carrying by hand or otherwise and for sending through the mails. All such matter when more or less tightly rolledhas a natural disposition to unroll when otherwise released and hence will eX- pand with sufficient resiliency to tighten itself in the tube and. remain secure until purposely removed by hand.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the tube is made, and showing the same partially developed for pasting into tubular form, as hereinafter fully described. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tube as developed from the blank in Fig. 1 and flattened with the special features of the invention shown on top. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of Fig. 2, enlarged, and Fig. dis a cross section. of Fig. 2, on line w00, showing the double folds. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a tube distended and showing a paper roll partially entered and hands guiding the same into its receiving end. Fig. 6 shows a tube andaroll and hands gripping said parts to draw the tube upon the roll after the same has been entered somewhat past the initial position, Fig. 5.

Now, having the tube a fashioned from soft paper, preferably, and with an overlapping pasted fold 2 and otherwise formed as shown and described, it should be under stood that the said tube can be made in a great variety of sizes and used for a great variety of purposes, but the primary and possibly most important use is in connection with magazines and other rolled printed matter as above set forth.

Heretofore the prevailing practice at news stands and the like for wrapping magazines and other publications has been to roll the same in a sheet or piece of paper which contained probably two or three times as much paper as I employ in a tube for the same publication and a quantity of twine to complete the package besides consuming valuable time to do the work. But with my tubes kept conveniently at hand only a moment 1s required to take a tube in one hand and the rolled print in the other and slip the same together as herein set forth. This works great economy of time and labor as well as of stock put into the wrapper, and my wrapper is ready at once for the mails, which is not the case with the old form of wrapping as just described.

Now, having the foregoing objects and advantages in view, the essentially novel and original features of the wrapper or tube consist in a tab or tongue 3 and the lateral infolds or flaps 4 at the sides of said tab. It will also be seen that the tab 3 is a portion or extension of the double and pasted fold or seam 2 of the tube and that the said inturned flaps form recesses or angles which are deepest at the sides of said tab and run at an inclination of about thirty degrees more or less therefrom outward to the end edge of the tube, leaving a tab or tongue of say half an inch, more or less, in length or long enough to grip by the thumb and forefinger and draw the tube upon the roll 1-. The supposition in this case of course is that the roll has been wound closely enough and to a size small enough to enter the tube easy and to be drawn comfortably over the roll. It follows also that while the roll is held in the hand as in Fig. 6 the tube can be drawn more or less fully over the same, but when the hand is re leased the main dependence is on the tab 3 to draw the tube full length over the roll while the other hand presses against the free end thereof. Usually it is designed that the wrapper shall be at least as long as the roll it incloses, but this is not absolutely necessary and it may be shorter or longer because it is not a matter of relative lengths between wrapper and article but of construction of tube with a tab 4 and angular folds for easy entering at the sides thereof substantially as shown.

The foregoing construction might of course be duplicated at the other end of the tube, or I might otherwise modify said other end, as by cutting a partial or a complete recess 5 in the edge thereof to facilitate gripping the end of the roll between finger and thumb to hold it while the tube is being drawn bodily off at the other end by pulling on the tongue. This enables the tube to be withdrawn without injury and to be preserved for future use. The said recess 5 is only partial in the present case as the portion or lip 7 is not removed but is turned back when'the roll is grasped as described. The lip may be inturned if desired.

The making of the tube proceeds along :the lines:indicated particularlyin Figs. 1 and 2. Thus, in Fig- 1 I: show a plain sheet of paperzofasuitablequalityand shape and whielris slitted'at b and v0 at a given distance from eachedge and to a depth of say half an :inch. The portionsnext inside said slit-s are then folded to anangle of say thirty degreesor thereabout from the bot vtomaof the slit"outward,:-and said folds or I Qopiesof thisapatent may be obtained'for flapsare. flattenedupon theupper face of the blank. This produces the double edge d onzeach fold. ,The upper edgeiportion h of the blank is .thensuitably pasted its full length-rand folded over and zadhered full length to- Y the corresponding under-edge of theotlrer-sideiof the blank. Tliisbrings. the two-separate ends of the respective :side edgesywhich: are formed by slits b: and 0 into folded and pasted position one over the other and together they constitute the tongue?) which is an extension of the double seanr2: of, thevtube.

1. Now was-to theobjects and advantages of the construction at the sides of the tongue 3 it will'be observedthat 'the'recesses incident tothevsaidflaps. are practically necessary to effect the introduction of the roll as contemplated-by my invention. Thus, asuseenin Fig.:-5-the said tubeand roll are brought together :in such way that the-said angular :recesses and theraisedtongue or tab 'together Y clear the way: for :laying the roll upon the rest .portion or projecting bottom half of the tube as a step next preceding the' actual insertion by pushing the ends of saidiparts together, which occurs in. Fig. 6. Ofcourse both the hands are presumed vto .be used in the initial act of Fig.6;one-handholdingtheinner end of the roll in a close-grip and the other distendingtheend-of-the tube with therest ortion 8 lying on Ethe palm of the hand. The foldedidouble-edge ofthe said flaps come into action at this time as they serve as stiffening and reinforcing portions to guide the end of'the roll into the tube as the same is fully introduced, and said edges d being smooth and at an inclination to the serrated transverse edge or end of the roll, as seen in Fig. 5, they facilitate such entrance even when 'the roll otherwise is very close and possibly could not be entered at all but for this peculiar formation-of the'tube. The end opening is in a sense of oval shape thereby permitting a freeand gradual entrance of the roll, the inclincd'edges d serving as guides. Being entered. the --work is completed by drawing the tube over the roll after the manner of a sleeve, see Fig. 6, in which the tongue 3 is shown as gripped between forefinger and thumb.

In the manufacture the tubes are flattened with the tongue 3 and the flaps l on one side as-seen in Fig. 2, and the uncut portion 8 of the tube on the other; and the tubes go to the trade in thisflattened state, a quantity of them being wrapped to form-a package -for convenient transportation.

"What I claiin is:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a wrapping-tube adapted to be flattened for packing and having a tab of double thickness formed from thestock of the paper itself and even at its end with the end of the tube and flaps at the'sides of said tab deepest at the base thereof and folded flat upon the inside of the tube at an inclinationfrom the base of saidtab to the edge of the tube.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a paper tube for carrying rolled publications and otherarticles provided with a seam of double thickness its entire lengthfiush with the surface of the'tube and forming a part thereof and terminating in a tab at its end extending beyond the adjacent end edge portion ofthe'tube atcither side of said tab and constituting a gripping end extension to draw thetube over the roll.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL ArPEL.

Witnesses:

F. Q Mussun, E. M. Fisi-inn.

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